White phosphoric acid

Synonyms Orthophosphoric acid white phosphoric acid... 

WHITE PHOSPHORIC ACID (7664-38-2) A medium-strong acid. Violent reaction with strong bases. Violent reaction if water is added to concentrated acid. To dilute, always add acid to water heat will be generated. Reacts violently with solutions containing ammonia or bleach, azo compounds, epoxides, and other polymerizable compounds. Reacts, possibly violently, with amines, aldehydes, alkanolamines, alcohols, alkylene oxides, amides, ammonia, ammonium hydrox-ide, calcium oxide, cyanides, epichlorohydrin, esters, halogenated organics, isocyanates, ketones, oleum, organic anhydrides, sodium tetrahydroborate, sulfides. 

SYNONYMS orthophosphoric acid, phosphoric acid (aqueous), white phosphoric acid. 

Syhonyms/Trade Names Orthophosphoric acid, Phosphoric acid (aqueous), White phosphoric acid ... 

White phosphorus may be made by several methods. By one process, tri-calcium phosphate, the essential ingredient of phosphate rock, is heated in the presence of carbon and silica in an electric furnace or fuel-fired furnace. Elementary phosphorus is liberated as vapor and may be collected under phosphoric acid, an important compound in making super-phosphate fertilizers. 

Thermal Process. In the manufacture of phosphoric acid from elemental phosphoms, white (yellow) phosphoms is burned in excess air, the resulting phosphoms pentoxide is hydrated, heats of combustion and hydration are removed, and the phosphoric acid mist collected. Within limits, the concentration of the product acid is controlled by the quantity of water added and the cooling capabiUties. Various process schemes deal with the problems of high combustion-zone temperatures, the reactivity of hot phosphoms pentoxide, the corrosive nature of hot phosphoric acid, and the difficulty of collecting fine phosphoric acid mist. The principal process types (Fig. 3) include the wetted-waH, water-cooled, or air-cooled combustion chamber, depending on the method used to protect the combustion chamber wall. 

Phosphorus(III) Oxide. Phosphoms(III) oxide [12440-00-5] the anhydride of phosphonic acid, is formed along with by-products such as phosphoms pentoxide and red phosphoms when phosphoms is burned with less than stoichiometric amounts of oxygen (62). Phosphoms(III) oxide is a poisonous, white, wax-like, crystalline material, which has a melting point of 23.8°C and a boiling point of 175.3°C. When added to hot water, phosphoms(III) oxide reacts violentiy and forms phosphine, phosphoric acid, and red phosphoms. Even in cold water, disproportionation maybe observed if the oxide is not well agitated, resulting in the formation of phosphoric acid and yellow or orange poorly defined polymeric lower oxides of phosphoms (LOOP). 

Phosphonic Acid and P(III) Derivatives. Phosphonic or phosphorous acid is a white dehquescent crystalline compound having a melting point of 73.6°C. As evidenced by its stmcture,HP(=0)(0H)2, phosphonic acid is dibasic. The first hydrogen is strongly ionized, pR 1.3—1.7, and... 

Silver Phosphates. Silver phosphate [7784-09-0], or silver orthophosphate, Ag3P04, is a bright yellow material formed by treating silver nitrate with a soluble phosphate salt or phosphoric acid. Silver pyrophosphate [13465-97-9], is a white salt prepared by the addition of a soluble... 

Titanium pyrophosphate [13470-09-2] TiP20y, a possible uv reflecting pigment, is a white powder that crystallizes ia the cubic system and has a theoretical density of 3106 kg/m. It is iasoluble ia water and can be prepared by heating a stoichiometric mixture of hydrous titania and phosphoric acid at 900°C. 

Boron phosphate, BPO, is a white, infusible soHd that vapori2es slowly above 1450°C, without apparent decomposition. It is normally prepared by dehydrating mixtures of boric acid and phosphoric acid at temperatures up to 1200°C. 

A third screening smoke-type is white phosphoms [7723-14-0] (WP), P (see Phosphorus and THE phosphides), which reacts spontaneously with air and water vapor to produce a dense cloud of phosphoms pentoxide [1314-56-3]. An effective screen is obtained as the P2O5 hydrolyzes to form droplets of dilute phosphoric acid aerosol. WP produces smoke in great quantity, but it has certain disadvantages. Because WP has such a high heat of combustion, the smoke it produces from bulk-filled munitions has a tendency to rise in pillarlike mass. This behavior too often nullifies the screening effect, particularly in stiU air. Also, WP is very brittle, and the exploding munitions in which it is used break it into very small particles that bum rapidly. 

Phosphate Phosphine Phosphoric acid Phosphorus (white, yellow)... 

The corresponding phosphoryl and thiophos-phoryl pseudohalides are also known, i.e. P0(NC0)3, PS(NC0)3, etc. Preparations are by standard procedures such as those on the diagram for PCI3 (p. 497). As indicated there, P(CN)3 has also been made it is a highly reactive white crystalline solid mp 203° which reacts violently with water to give mainly phosphorous acid and HCN. 

Free hypophosphorous acid is obtained by acidifying aqueous solutions of hypophosphites but the pure acid cannot be isolated simply by evaporating such solutions because of its ready oxidation to phosphorous and phosphoric acids and disproportionation to phosphine and phosphorous acid (Fig. 12.16). Pure H3PO2 is obtained by continuous cxiraction from aqueous solutions into Ft 0 it forms white crystals mp... 

When the entire quantity of the phosphoric acid has thus been added, agitation of the mixture is continued for about a half-hour or more to insure complete conversion. The precipitate is then allowed to settle, the supernatant liquid is drawn off, and the residue is filtered. The precipitate thus separated may, if desired, be washed with acetone and is then dried by evaporation to constant weight. It forms a fine, white, impalpable powder consisting of pure monobasic amphetamine phosphate. 

Phosphorous acid, 372 Phosphorus black, 365 boiling point, 374 chemistry of, 368 compounds, 102 heat of vaporization, 374 ionization energy, 268 melting point, 374 occurrence, 373 oxyacids, 371, 372 preparation, 374, 376 properties, 101 structure, 366 white, 120, 365, 366, 369 Photon, 254... 

Red P has been employed as an ingredient of pyrotechnic smoke, delay and safety match formulations (Refs 1,2,3 4). White smoke consisting of small droplets of phosphoric acid have been widely used for military purposes. 

White P, either in bulk or in soln, is a good example of the burning type of smoke generator. The resulting colloidal suspension of P pentoxide is quickly hydrolyzed by moisture to become phosphoric acid droplets which are the actual visible constituent of the smoke. Various other burning type smoke generators exist such as those used for signaling purposes and which use red P, metallic phosphides, or P trichloride as the source of the particulate cloud... 

White et al.1A have obtained similar kinetic results for the acid-catalysed rearrangement of N-nitro-N-methylaniline, i.e. a first-order dependence on the nitroamine with a linear H0 plot of slope 1.19 for phosphoric acid, and a deuterium solvent isotope effect of about three, although the results have only been presented in preliminary form. Further, an excellent Hammett a+ correlation was claimed for thirteen para substituted nitroamines which gave a p value of —3.9. Since it is expected that the rate coefficients would correlate with a (rather than different basicities of the amines, the a+ correlation implies that the amino nitrogen is electron-deficient in the transition state,... 

M.13 When aqueous solutions of calcium nitrate and phosphoric acid are mixed, a white solid precipitates, (a) What is the formula of the solid (b) How many grams of the solid can be formed from 206 g of calcium nitrate and 150. g of phosphoric acid ... 

When phosphorus burns in an ample supply of air, it forms phosphorus(V) oxide, P4O]0 (5). This white solid reacts so vigorously with water that it is widely used in the laboratory as a drying agent. Phosphorus(V) oxide is the anhydride of phosphoric acid, H3P04 (6) ... 

High-purity H3 PO4 is obtained using a more expensive redox process that starts from the pure element. Controlled combustion of white phosphorus gives phosphorus(V) oxide, P4 Oio, whose structure is shown in Figure 21-11 P4 -F 5 O2 P4 Oio Addition of water to P4 Oio generates highly pure phosphoric acid ... 

Concentrated solutions of orthophosphoric acid, often containing metal salts, are used to form cements with metal oxides and aluminosilicate glasses. Orthophosphoric acid, often referred to simply as phosphoric acid, is a white crystalline solid (m.p. 42-35 °C) and there is a crystalline hemihydrate, 2H3PO4.H2O, which melts at 29-35 °C. The acid is tribasic and in aqueous solution has three ionization constants (pA J 2-15,7-1 and 12-4. 

The only element that was discovered in body fluids (urine). This is plausible, as P plays a main role in all life processes. It is one of the five elements that make up DNA (besides C, H, N, and 0 evolution did not require anything else to code all life). The P-O-P bond, phosphoric acid anhydride, is the universal energy currency in cells. The skeletons of mammals consists of Ca phosphate (hydroxylapatite). The element is encountered in several allotropic modifications white phosphorus (soft, pyrophoric P4, very toxic), red phosphorus (nontoxic, used to make the striking surface of matchboxes), black phosphorus (formed under high pressures). Phosphates are indispensable as fertilizer, but less desirable in washing agents as the waste water is too concentrated with this substance (eutrophication). It has a rich chemistry, is the basis for powerful insecticides, but also for warfare agents. A versatile element. 

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